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Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.

Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.

Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance.

He will drink from a brook beside the way ; therefore he will lift up his head.

I believed; therefore I said, "I am greatly afflicted."

I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.

All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross; therefore I love your statutes.

Your statutes are wonderful; therefore I obey them.

But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.

Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.

Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed-without remedy.

Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore stand in awe of God.

When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.

Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: "Ah, I will get relief from my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.

Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the LORD will make their scalps bald."

Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst.

Therefore the grave enlarges its appetite and opens its mouth without limit; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.

Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.